Monday 20 February 2012

The Tale of The Small Bud Vase is your sneeky peek into our world. I will take you through the step of what happens as soon as we have an order. 



Here is our factory store room. This is where all of our blank lead crystal items are. We choose the blank Small Bud Vase and Alan then marks it up with his blue pen.  He knows all of our six pattern cuts and goes about making the guidelines for him to follow when cutting on his wheel. I so admire his  fabulous memory


He turns the wheel that the vase is on and with his super steady hand he quickly makes his marks. He is singing away to his beloved Radio 2. Here he is answering questions on the music quiz. He's not doing too badly you  know!


So, here he is at his cutting wheel, carefully holding and doing the design. This Small Bud Vase is having the St Clears pattern.  He is asking whether I have his good side! Now that he has cut the vase, it will now go into the tray to go off to be polished to make it all nice and sparkly.


Here is our van, and we load it up with all the other items that require polishing after Alan has cut them.


Introducing you to the returned vase, and look how it gleams. It is now ready to be wrapped and sent to the customer.




Into our Welsh Royal Crystal box it goes and the courier will collect later for the next day delivery.

Each item when ordered on the phone or via our www.welshroyalcrystal.co.uk site can take up to three weeks to make. We always ensure that each customer is aware that we handcut to order and the process of cutting and polishing can take this amount of time. We do have all items in the shop, but an order to us means it is to made from scratch and you are having the personal touch from Alan and you know he has taken great care to make your order. He is such a stickler for detail is our Alan. He has 35 years experience and is very proud of his ability to turn a blank item into a stunning handcrafted item.

So there you have it, the Tale of the Small Bud Vase. I hope you've enjoyed this blog and now understand how we process every order.

The Small Bud Vase is a new product that we are introducing to the site, and it will be on there shortly. So, you are seeing something new and exciting to us, and we are pleased to share it with you for the first time. 

If you have an questions relating to this blog, please leave your comment and I will do my best to answer it for you!

Bye for now...Kim @WRC

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